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Weaponized Theology

September 20, 2011 in Belief, Catholic Church, christianity, Ethics, god, Law, Reason, Religion, Religious Persons, Uncategorized

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In my last post, Theology is NOT a Science, I argued that theology, which is the ‘science of god’ has nothing whatsoever to do with science. Science works with concepts and theorems that are falsifiable; theology has at its foundations statements which are non-falsifiable. Whereas science is concerned with learning about the natural world by experimentation, trial and error and not taking any information and knowledge gained as necessarily permanent, theology is the opposite. Theology takes these non-falsifiable concepts, and grounds its entire body of ‘knowledge’ around them, without ever actually questioning or challenging them. Science deals with knowledge; religion deals with lies and nonsense. Read the rest of this entry →

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Parmenides, Atheism and Religion

September 7, 2011 in Atheism, Belief, christianity, Christians, Comedy, Doctrine, George Carlin, god, Nietzsche, Parmenides, Philosophy, Reason, Religion, Religious Persons, Uncategorized

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In his Poem, Parmenides, a pre-Socratic philosopher, artfully tells us of a dream, on which the protagonist is flown off in a chariot and meets a goddess, who instructs him on the subject of wisdom and knowledge. He writes:

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26       Welcome, since in no way a bad fate (moira) has sent you forth to go
27       On this road – for truly it is far from the beaten path of humans -,
28       But rather Themis (Right) and Dikē (Justice). You must hearken to (learn) everything,
29       Both the unshaking heart of well-rounded (persuasive?) Alētheiē (Truth)
30       And the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true assurance.
31       But nevertheless you shall learn these things also, how the things that are believed (OR: the things that seem)
32       Must really be altogether [going] throughout all things (OR: Must really be accepted to be continually (continuously) pervading everything). Read the rest of this entry →

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Australian MP Fred Nile Hates Ethics

August 6, 2011 in Atheism, Australia, Belief, christianity, Christians, Doctrine, Ethics, Fundamentalist Christians, Invalid Belief, Judicial Matters, Law, Religion, Valid Belief

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In this day and age when, every time you turn around, you see one type of gross ethical failure or another, you would like that members of this government or that parliament would be encouraging an increased presence of ethics classes in education. Well, folks, it seems that even in this day and age, some people don’t think we should be turning to ethics classes for guidance – they believe we need to be turning to religion.

One of these people is Fred Nile, Australian MP and National President of the Christian Democratic Party. Nile has brought forward an Ethics Repeal Bill, which would abolish the teaching of ethics classes currently being offered in New South Whales. And what Read the rest of this entry →

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Secularization Religiosity and Doctrine

August 6, 2011 in Atheism, Belief, buddhism, Catholic Church, Catholics, Christians, Fundamentalist Christians, Invalid Belief, islam, judaism, muslims, Religious Persons, Valid Belief

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Good afternoon everyone! I hope you’re all having a great day. Despite a rather shaky start to the day, everything is now going well and I just read a great article in The Vancouver Sun, titled Secularization the best thing for religion by Douglas Todd. In this article, Todd examines the writing of contemporary philosophers Charles Taylor and John Cobb, and focuses on the concept of secularization in relationship to religion and religiosity.

According to Todd, the process of secularization began during the Axial Age (around 500 years before the supposed birth of Read the rest of this entry →

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Vacation Reading? Ben-the-Dick Recommends Bible

August 4, 2011 in Atheism, Belief, Catholic Church, Catholic News Agency, christianity, Doctrine, Ethics, Faith, islam, judaism, muslims, Reason, Religion

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We’ve all been there before. You are on vacation and you start looking for a good book to read. Well, according to David Kerr in his Catholic News Agency article Pope recommends bible for vacation reading, Ben-the-Dick is suggesting that people pick up and read a bible. Ben suggests finding a part of the bad book you are unfamiliar with as a way to pass your time. Read the rest of this entry →

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